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From: "Gareth Pearce" <tilps AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: RE: Why 2 DLL names?
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:21:28 +1100
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> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Using Cygwin 1.5.5-1, I am porting a Unix shared library to Windows.
> After making and linking the library with libtool, two DLLs were
> created:
> 
> libxxxxxx.dll.a
> cygxxxxxx-1.dll
> 
> I guess I was only expecting: libxxxxxx.dll.
> 
> Why were the 2 names generated and why the "cyg" prefix on one of
> them?  Also, which one should I use?


The first is not a dll - its an import library(I think?)
Cyg prefix is chosen to clearly delimit mingw dll's from cygwin dll's -
since, for example, zlib comes in both cygwin and mingw versions, and naming
them the same would cause conflicts.

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